Wednesday, February 10, 2016

9/11: THE UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

Dear Friend

If there is one event that you ask me to name as a
single transforming day in the last 100 years, I would say it was
September 11th 2001. As someone who has lived and worked across the
world over the last 30 years including in the United States, Afghanistan
and Much of Europe, Far East Asia, East and South Africa and Caribbean
apart from having worked in close to 550 districts of India’s 600 odd
districts, I saw the twin towers as a symbol of eternal freedom and free
spirit. To witness their horrific collapse (due to acts of terror) into
their own foot print, perhaps faster than free fall, are images that
refuse to go away even today. Worse is the collapse of WTC 7 and that
really set me thinking!

Never in the history of mankind, have
tall multi-storied steel structures SUPPOSEDLY collapsed due to fire
other than three buildings (WTC North Tower, WTC South Tower and WTC 7) –
interestingly, they were all located at the same place (Lower
Manhattan, New York, USA), they all fell on the same day and they all
had been leased (just less than 100 days before their collapse) to the
very same person. Remarkable indeed and I said to myself – ‘is that a
coincidence or what”. I decided to research this issue and this book is
an outcome of this quiet effort for over 14 years. I hope to bring a
VERY OBJECTIVE and HIGHLY RIGOROUS ANALYTICAL RESEARCH PERSPECTIVE to
this transforming event, its antecedents and consequences.

We
OWE this to the American People, especially the families of the 9/11
Victims as well as the General American Public and also the Global
Community.

I am really excited TO SAY that I have just completed
THIS book, “9/11: THE UNANSWERED QUESTIONS” and it is slated for release
worldwide in May 2016 through Authors Upfront.
As I stated
above, September 11th, 2001 was a day that drastically changed the
world. Without any doubt, 9/11 is one of the world’s most horrific
crimes where thousands of (innocent) people died and we certainly need
to get to the bottom of the truth. And while what happened on 9/11 was
INDEED a horrific crime, my work through these 14 years have slowly and
surely convinced me that 9/11 has not been FULLY and PROPERLY
investigated as a crime and that is what I have attempted to do in this
book.

Using clear and objectively verifiable facts collected
painstakingly over several years, the book shows why and how the
official 9/11 commission report has (miserably) failed to do a fair,
transparent and objective analysis of the 9/11 crime and thereby failed
to fix responsibility and accountability for its actual happening.
Specifically, while I analyze events, incidents, evidence, statements,
people, institutions etc in an objective but critical manner, I must
UNDERLINE the fact that I DON’T put forward any CONSPIRACY THEORIES.
Rather I attempt to set the ground - in a clear and objective manner by
solidly critiquing the work of the official 9/11 commission and its
final report using strong evidence - for a new objective crime like
investigation. People who read this book and peruse the evidence will
surely NOT be able to defend the official 9/11 commission report, under
any circumstances what-so-ever as the EVIDENCE is solidly presented in
black and white and hits a reader on face right upfront!

While
the book builds on previous excellent work (cited in the book) with
regard 9/11 done by scholars, researchers, scientists and other
stakeholders, it differs from the existing attempts to critique the work
of the 9/11 commission in several major ways:

A) It analyses the
crime of 9/11 from first principles and thereby draws up an exhaustive
list of evidence that SHOULD have been examined, people who OUGHT to
have been interviewed in terms of how the security was breached both in
air and the ground (of the most protected place on the planet) with a
focus on stakeholders involved, and people, companies, contractors,
consultants etc associated and the key interrelationships among them.
Security companies at WTC/airports, insurers of WTC buildings, owners,
lessors and lessees etc along with enterprise architecture consultants
who worked for the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) and NORAD
(North American Aerospace Defense Command) and set up the key systems
(modelled on the Zachman framework who even supposedly cautioned the use
of systems based on such frameworks at FAA) among others, have been
focussed upon in a microscopic manner along with their key relationships
and interrelationships. THE CAUSAL ANALYSIS HELPS ISOLATE
RESPONSIBILITY AND FIX ACCOUNTABILITY, SOMETHING WHICH THE 9/11 REPORT
HAS FAILED TO DO.

B) It traces antecedents as far back as the
Iran Contra Affair, the October Surprise and the hearings way back in
1980s when Lee Hamilton and Dick Cheney were closely coordinating with
each other. It moves through the last stage of the Nixon Presidency,
sifts through 2 terms of the Reagan Presidency, Clinton Presidency,
George W Bush Presidency and The Obama Presidency with the George H W
Bush Presidency sandwiched between the Reagan and Clinton Presidencies.

The focus here is on pentagon policies, accounting issues and the
missing trillions, key counter terrorism policy issues and their
implementation especially after the WTC was bombed in 1993 and Tridata
Corporation (subsidiary of System Planning International) analyzed the
security breaches for the same, the major people involved in all these
decisions including those supposedly responsible (for example like James
Gorelick who supposedly issued a memo as Deputy Attorney General (DAG)
in the Clinton Administration. Interestingly, she became a future 9/11
commissioner) for building the wall between FBI and CIA, the key
inter-relationships between various people and
consultants/companies/defense contractors and especially with future
9/11 commissioners and staff along with a detailed microscopic
exposition of associated conflicts of interest etc and ramifications of
all of the above for 9/11, as an event. Again, as before every bit of
evidence including memos are presented in black and white for the
reader. There are no suppositions and inference. PLAIN SIMPLE FACTS
dominate the discourse and that would MAKE it hard for anyone to defend
the official 9/11 report.

C) There are many many more distinguishing features but let me refrain from letting the 'cats' out of the 'bags'...; and

D) Most importantly, the book does NOT advance any conspiracy
theory...it relies simply on objectively verifiable facts and provides
all such evidence upfront and black and white and raises valid questions
that could help a new objective probe and thereby fix accountability
and ultimate responsibility.

There is a lot more which I don’t
want to reveal here but I am sure you will find the book interesting
given the above and also given the fact that i have used my deep
networks across USA, Europe, Africa and Asia where I have lived and
worked with governments and private sector in various capacities.

About Me

Ramesh S Arunachalam is an Engineer MBA who has been a columnist, a filmmaker, an entrepreneur, a development practitioner, a socio-political commentator, and a strategic advisor. He has worked in several areas including financial sector and its regulation and supervision, Governance, ERP systems, infrastructure and urban development, e Governance etc. Ramesh has completed over 260 professional assignments in 28 years, working in over 560 districts of India and over 25 countries in Asia, Africa, North America, Europe and the Caribbean. His clients include governments, bi-lateral and multi-lateral agencies, regulators, commercial banks, investment banks, microfinance institutions, private sector firms and several other stakeholders globally. He has authored and published numerous reports/studies/papers. His blog on microfinance has been well received and he has also penned several books - The Journey of Indian Microfinance, An Idea Which Went Wrong: Commercial Microfinance in India, Where Angels Prey and Madam President: History in the Making? – all of which have received critical acclaim. His forthcoming book, 9/11: The Unanswered Questions is slated for release in September 2016.